Spotting Errors
Direction: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The alphabet number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, then the answer is E.
- If I was you (A) I would not have (B)/ committed (C)/ this blunder (D)/No error (E).
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Say, 'If I had been you'. This is a conditional structure.
Correct Option: A
Say, 'If I had been you'. This is a conditional structure.
- Not one of the hundreds (A)/ of striking workers (B)/ were allowed to go (C)/ near the factory (D)/ No error (E).
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Say, 'was instead of 'were'. The subject 'not one' is singular.
Correct Option: C
Say, 'was instead of 'were'. The subject 'not one' is singular.
- These Acts were (A)/ pushed through Parliament (B)/ in spite of opposition (C)/ but for little modification (D)/ No error (E).
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'but for little modification' should be changed either to 'but for without modification' or by 'but with a little modification'.
Correct Option: D
'but for little modification' should be changed either to 'but for without modification' or by 'but with a little modification'.
- The boy asked (A)/ his father, why (B)/ he cutting (C)/ down the tree (D)/ No error (E).
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Write 'was' after 'he'. (See the rules for Reported speech)
Correct Option: C
Write 'was' after 'he'. (see the rules for Reported speech)
- He walked (A)/ quick so that (B)/ he would not (C)/ be late (D) No error (E).
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Write 'quickly' instead of 'quick'. Quick' is an adjective, and hence can't qualify a verb (walked).
Correct Option: B
Write 'quickly' instead of 'quick'. Quick' is an adjective, and hence can't qualify a verb (walked).
